It is estimated that the weather is too cold, and the light emitted by the burning lanterns in the city gate cave has a bit of blue and white color.

And in the small room next to the city gate hole, seven or eight military policemen looked as if they had nourished enough spirit during the day, and at this moment they were all guarding the small square table with bright eyes, and three ox bone dice rose and fell in the big porcelain bowl, making the ocean and tickets in the hands of those military policemen shuttling back and forth, and even more attracting those military policemen who gambled to rise one by one with red ears and red ears and sweating profusely.

Looking at the military police and tax collectors at the gate of the city, the name of a watchdog and a roadblocker is not good, but there is no shortage of benefits. The old bubbles on the pot outside the city, the old white dried puree, the tender cucumbers and crisp lotus roots grown in the glass greenhouse in the manor, the newly marinated hooves and water on the head of the soup pot, how to leave some filial piety when passing through the city gate. Poke at the gate of the city on an empty stomach for half an hour, and a mouthful of oil and water can be eaten into a thin layer of hoarfrost in winter, and burps in summer can attract a cloud of flies.

Ordinary poor small families, on a cold day, barely warm the kang noodles by the light of the fire that burns firewood for cooking, and shiveres in the middle of the night wrapped in a thin quilt, but they are still reluctant to burn firewood and coal to keep warm. But in the small house at the gate of the city, where the military and police were sheltering from the wind, large pieces of white coal and barrels of silver frost charcoal were always pulled down from the carts entering the city. One day, if you burn firewood to keep warm, the military police and tax collectors at the city gate will have to scold in their voices-this damn bad luck, a room of smoke really smokes the eyes of the master!

In the dead of night, when the black and white characters enter and exit the city gate, there is always a little filial piety. After the night, I walked with my grandfather to drink a bowl of tofu brain and wonton soup on the newly opened food stall. With two baskets of walnut buns and donkey meat, the waist can always carry several pieces of ocean.

After half a year, the eight alleys often come and go, and it is common to make fake fairies on the couch a few times!

Listening to the sound of footsteps outside the room, the military police, who were gambling in a circle, stood up lazily, and a master who was not in a good hand shouted in a voice through the two-story window with mulberry paper: "What are you doing? ”

Greeted the military policeman's shouting. Immediately from outside the room, a voice of promise came: "Cut the cake!" It's convenient to drive your feet high?! ”

Lazily wrapped in a thick cotton robe, and then buttoned a cotton hat to his head, the unlucky military policeman grabbed the key thrown aside, pulled the door of the small room open a narrow slit, and just flashed out of the house, he was suddenly struck by the cold wind outside the house, twitching his nose and opening his mouth to sneeze a few times!

Lowering their heads, Xiang Youbao and Han Liangpin silently watched the military policeman who had just come out of the small house and walked into the city gate hole. Only then did he follow behind the military policeman, and quietly stood under the half-dim air death lamp, and covered his face by the dark place under the lamp.

opened the small door out of the city with mud and water, and the military policeman who opened the door looked at Xiang Youbao and Han Liangpin standing in the shadows with some impatience: "What are you doing stupidly poking there?" Ma'er walking! ”

Feeling out a few pieces of ocean from his arms, Xiang Youbao held the ocean in the palm of his hand and gently shook it, and said to the military policeman who opened the door in a low voice: "This master, I beg you something here?" ”

Sneered. The patrolman who opened the small door suddenly shouted in a loud voice: "Yo, hehe, another master who is too smart? I bought a passing cake, and I thought about leaving it here to make a little money and do a big thing. Pointing to the master, let a few more people in and out of the city gate, right? Let me tell you that the bowl of rice that my lord eats is a long-term business. Because the broken money of your two jujubes will spoil the master's meal, are you a fool to be the master? Ma Yu'er let the master go, otherwise, I will ask you for the sin of breaking into the city gate in the middle of the night. You can't eat and walk around! ”

Flipping the few pieces of ocean in his hand, Xiang Youbao was still standing in the shadows under the dead wind lamp, and whispered to the military policeman who was shouting loudly: "This master, if I really want to ask you for a bargain here, then I can't talk with these few, right?" Just one thing. Someone is going to lead the horses out of the city, and you can slow them down for a while? ”

Slightly stunned, the military policeman who opened the door shouted again: "You also said that you are not too smart?" You're not a bad idea, are you? With these few scraps of money, do you want to let the master help you pull out the sores and block the side? What's wrong? Provoked any characters in Sijiu City that you can't mess with? Let's let me hear and relieve my boredom?! ”

Hanging his head, Xiang Youbao deliberately pinched out a timid look after being called out of his mind: "This master, I really didn't tell you to make it clear!" The two of us are just harvested buying buddies in the Chrysanthemum Society, and we just privately stocked some New Year's groceries outside the city yesterday, thinking about taking advantage of the stalls in front of us for the next year, tossing a few money inside and out. But I didn't expect that someone wouldn't be able to see our brothers earn these few hard-earned little money, so they put the shopkeeper there to give our brothers eye medicine and sue the black! At present, the shopkeeper has already sent someone out of the city overnight to inventory goods and accounts, if this is this master, our brothers' rice ruts are now all in your hands! But if you let our brothers get over this hurdle in front of us, in the future"

Laughing and hanging the iron ring with the key on his fingers, the military police who opened the door obviously believed Xiang Youbao's words, and unceremoniously interrupted Xiang Youbao's words: "Sensei and I have something to do with the high ground and far away!" All year round, the chariot and horse characters in the city gate cave that the master has watched, and there are many people who make wishes in person and turn their faces and forget things, but none of them can rely on a mouth to cross the threshold of the master! The soup is less talkative, how many hemp slips are taken out in the waist, if you can serve the master happily, the master will also stretch out his hand to reward you with a meal! ”

Putting on a look of being at a loss, Xiang Youbao stretched out his hand and touched it in his arms, and at the same time whispered anxiously to Han Liangpin, who was standing beside him: "I said brother, whether you will eat fragrant and spicy food or eat bran vegetables in the future, just look at the hammer deal in front of you!" How many are in the waist, count a few, and pay tribute to this master! At this time, I have to think about saving my private house and keeping myself, I'm afraid that I really won't be able to get over this hurdle in front of me! ”

Although he didn't understand what kind of mystery Xiang Youbao was making, Han Liangpin also took out more than a dozen pieces of ocean from his waist and handed them over to Xiang Youbao's hands.

There were more than 20 oceans in one piece, and Xiang Youbao held those oceans in both hands and came to the military police who opened the door, and shouted in a somewhat flattering tone: "This master, sweep and dry your body, you can take out this point!" I'll give you another honest word here - if our brothers can pass this pass today, in the future, Jushe will be left outside Sijiu City to buy groceries on the left, but it will be our brothers who have the final say! When the time comes, when the sky hits you on the ground, it is absolutely impossible to return to you to add filial piety! You also said that your food is a long stream."

The splitter held the big ocean and the ticket in his hand, and the military policeman who opened the door muttered in a low voice very proudly: "Hey said that the gambling table is a walking lane, a break to change hands, I didn't expect it to be fulfilled here today!" Well, you two are out of the city, and the characters who are leading the horses out of the city in the back, I don't have a fixed number for how long I can help you two slow down, this is really a look at the two of you's life! ”

Hurriedly arching his hand towards the triumphant military policeman, Xiang Youbao and Han Liangpin quickly got out of the small gate that only opened a narrow slit, and ran forward along the avenue at the city gate for four or five miles, and then squatted down in a dry ditch on the side of the road.

Turning his head to look at the surprised look on Han Liangpin's face, Xiang Youbao was not in a hurry to explain the reason, but just felt out more than a dozen black threads with the thickness of a hair from the family bag on his waist, and after pulling and arranging it back and forth on the road, he returned to the dry ditch where Han Liangpin was hiding, and smiled at Han Liangpin, who was already a little suddenly enlightened: "Master Han, you may have figured out something at this time?" ”

After thinking about it for a while, Han Liangpin pointed to the direction of the city gate and said, "Xiangye, you asked the military police guarding the city gate to stop those people from the Ju Society, thinking that you wanted them to show their traces?" ”

Nodding slightly, Xiang Youbao sat down in the dry ditch: "There are eight or nine people who came out of the Jushe, if it is really because we want to waste their night pigeons, and you are so fierce and disappear, there should not be so many people who go to the secret kiln outside the city to report the news!" I guess this is still the first master in the chrysanthemum club to prepare an extra hand, in order to prevent us from watching at night, these people who report the news will break up as soon as they leave the city gate, so that we don't know which way to follow if we want to! ”

"That's why you want to ask the military police guarding the city gate to stop those people in Jushe, just to make them more anxious, and they can go straight to the dark kiln after leaving the city?"

"That's what it means! Coupled with these things that we just crossed the road, we could have wasted the hooves of a few of their horses! When the time comes, as long as you see which group of people are all riding horses that have not injured their hooves, which group of people are going to the dark kiln, let's go down the road! On this cold day, there have been a few snows outside the city, and they can't walk fast even if they ride horses, so we can definitely follow them to find the secret kiln of Jushe outside Sijiu City! By the way, Ah Pong Ye is the one who sits on the ground in Sijiu City, but has he prepared his foot strength? Where are they hidden? ”

"I explained it to me during the day, and I was hiding near here, so I was right!" (To be continued......)